{"id":21649,"date":"2012-09-24T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2012-09-19T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T10:51:47","slug":"virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/09\/virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a virus in the sky<br \/>\nblowing around the world in dark clouds<br \/>\nfilling our mouths, ears, eyes, lungs,<br \/>\nour already damaged brains.<\/p>\n<p>Our species coughs and wheezes,<br \/>\nand we can barely help each other.<\/p>\n<p>The immunization shots<br \/>\nprovided by religions<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t work, or made us sicker.<\/p>\n<p>Faith healers abound, and nostrums.<\/p>\n<p>Mars looks down at us<br \/>\namused.<\/p>\n<p>Did evolution fail,<br \/>\nor is this just the bad start<br \/>\nof a new century,<br \/>\nmerely a readjustment,<br \/>\na fever that will break,<br \/>\nfrom which we will emerge<br \/>\nconvalescent, wiser,<br \/>\nand perhaps even<br \/>\nloving?<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tom Greening:<\/em><\/strong><em> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our species coughs and wheezes,<br \/>\nand we can barely help each other.<br \/>\nThe immunization shots<br \/>\nprovided by religions<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t work, or made us sicker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}